Big Bomb Tests

    What's the quickest way to fill Earth's atmosphere with the equal amount of pollution of one million cars driving for ten years nonstop in less than ten minutes?

Big Bombs!   Between September 1957 and December 1962 the United States government and the Soviet Union dropped hundreds of Thermo-Nuclear bombs, ranging from 1 megaton to 58 megatons.

The worlds most powerful hydrogen bomb was detonated on the 30th of October 1961. The bomb had an explosive force of 58 megatons, or almost 6,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. The bomb was dropped by an aircraft, and detonated 365 metres (1,200 feet) above the surface. The shock wave produced by this bomb was so powerful, it went thrice around the earth. The mushroom cloud extended almost 60 kilometres into the atmosphere. Resulting downfall was measured over the entire northern hemisphere. A flash of light could be observed all the way to Hopen in the Norwegian Sea, Sør-Varanger in the Norwegian county of Finnmark and by the Inari Lake in Finnish Lappland.

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