2007-06-27 08:13:53 · 13 answers · asked by Nevis 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
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The only hydrogen bomb explosion were done on test stands.
2007-06-27 08:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a trick question! Hydrogen bombs were never used in warfare, and test have been done on the ground, not by dropping them from airplanes.
But in 1966 a B-52 dropped a live hydrogen bomb over a village in Spain called Palomeres. This happened after an in-air refueling accident in which the B-52 and the tanker both crashed.
You can read about it here:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2004/2/2004_2_28.shtml
2007-06-27 08:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most powerful bomb ever to be tested, known as the Tsar ( it was a hydrogen bomb ) was dropped out of an Aircraft, which was obviously Russian, so don't know the name of the Aircraft that dropped it.
2007-06-27 08:24:04 · answer #3 · answered by claret 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most hydrogen bomb tests were underground or underwater, but several, especially in the 40's and 50's were air dropped to conduct high altitude tests.
The US used B-29's and B-52's.
The British used Vickers Valiant bombers during their Grapple tests.
The Chinese used Hong-6 bombers
The Russians used Tuplev TU-95's. The following link is a video of the largest nuke ever tested, dropped from a TU-95 during the Tsar Bomba test. It had a 50 megaton yield.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2046393742348211186
The French never used aircraft, relying on balloons to lift them to the appropriate height.
Every other country that has tested did underground testing only.
2007-06-27 11:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by ahoff 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None on a live target....the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, the Hydrogen bomb is much more powerful and came later. After the war.
2007-06-27 08:17:52 · answer #5 · answered by booman17 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently more than most people here think. Do a web search on H-bomb tests and you'll find there have been quite a few test drops with detonations. There have also been several accidental drops and crashes of bomb-laden aircraft.
Airborne alert, what a concept.
2007-06-27 11:15:49 · answer #6 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Enola Gay was a B-29. It didn't drop a hydrogen bomb but that was they type of aircraft.
2007-06-27 08:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry dr stranglove, that was not an H-bomb. Just a little bitty A-bomb. H or Hydrogen bombs were tested in the South Pacific by the U.S. The first ones were dropped by B-29s. Almost every strategic bomber that has flown for the U.S. since WWII has dropped one of them. They have never been used in war.
I know the Soviet Union tested H-bombs, but I don't know their method of delivery during their tests.
2007-06-27 08:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by drgnrdr451 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no aircraft have ever dropped a hydrogen bomb and the bombs Enola Gay dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atom bombs
2007-06-30 05:48:11 · answer #9 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There has never been a hydrogen bomb dropped out of a plane. The only hydrogen bombs ever detonated were detonated on land.
2007-06-27 08:23:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
B-52s have carried them on training missions but none has ever been dropped. However, there is a B-52 that is encased in ice off the coast of Greenland with an H Bomb on board but will stay encased in ice forever.
2007-06-27 08:26:18 · answer #11 · answered by Tommy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋