The 10 most powerful nuclear weapon ever made

Nuclear bombs are perhaps one of the most horrible things ever built by governments. His power of destruction can decimate entire cities and sequelae in place for many decades. Still, many countries are proud of them and develop increasingly deadly technologies to annihilate other humans.

In the list below, you know the biggest and most powerful nuclear weapons that exist on planet Earth. One has a power equivalent to 3.8000 Little Boy, the atomic bomb uranium that killed more than 70,000 people directly and thousands more indirectly.

Before you follow the list below, we explain an acronym that will be widely used, MT (megatons). Kiloton and megaton equivalent in TNT, is an energy quantification method released in explosions or destructive power. A MT is equal to 4,181 petajoules. In short: 1 megaton is already a hell explosion.

 10. Mark 14

Tenth, the Mark 14 was an experimental thermonuclear bomb created in the US during the '50s with a different design of contemporary weapons, five units were produced. The Mk-14 had a power of 6.9 MT.

 9. Mark 16

As an evolution of the Mk-14, Mark 16 was a thermonuclear bomb liquid fuel that was 7 MT. It was replaced in 1954 by the TX-14.9 MT.

8. B53 / MK-53

With a power of 9 MT, the bomb was active until 1997. It was built with enriched uranium and lithium-6 deuteride. His design called for her to be released from an airplane being charged for five parachute - but the free fall, of course, was also possible.

7. Mk-36

This thermonuclear bomb used a multistage fusion to generate a force of up to 10 MT. 940 of these were produced, being withdrawn "service" 1962

6. Ivy Mike H-Bomb

With 10.4 Mta Ivy Mike is equivalent to the force of 700 explosions in Hiroshima. She had six meters long and 2 meters in diameter and is used in tests in 1951.

5. MK-24

One of the most powerful bombs ever made in the USA, it was produced in various configurations with a variable force of 10 MT to 15 MT.

4. MK17

Weighing 18 tons, it was the first hydrogen bomb used by the Air Force US. It also had the ability to detonate between 10 MT and 15 MT.

3. TX-21 "Shrimp"

It was tested in 1954 in the Marshall Islands, the United States. Its detonation force reached 14.8 MT. Its radioactive range spread over 11,000 square kilometers and hit Asia, Australia, USA and Europe.

2. B41

This monstrosity has 25 MT, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever made by the US. Were produced more than 500 of them between 1960 and 1962. Two versions were made: the "clean" and "dirty" which had coated uranium.

1. Tsar Bomba

The Tsar Bomba was the largest and most powerful thermonuclear bomb ever built. She was exploded in the Russian Arctic Sea by the Soviet Union in 1961.

His power was no less than 50 MT. Its detonation occurred four kilometers above the ground and its strength was equivalent to 3,800 Hiroshima bombs.

At the beginning of its development, this giant had a power of 100 MT, but was reduced by 50% to limit the radioactive dust.