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If an atom bomb 8 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima in WWII was used what would happen?
would the world be torn apart??

2007-09-04 09:42:42 · 9 answers · asked by Gee Kai 4 in Arts & Humanities History

if you wanna know why i am asking, i read it somewhere that there was an atomic bomb found 8 times more powerful

2007-09-04 09:55:52 · update #1

9 answers

No.

Humans have limited ability to truly harm Earth. We really only have the ability to harm ourselves on Earth.

There are "crust busters" being developed. For what reason, I will never know.... I just hope they aren't delivered until after jan 20th, 2009....

2007-09-04 09:48:19 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew Wiggin 4 · 1 0

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were really quite small. The warheads developed for use during the Cold War and nowadays are not just 8 times more powerful, most of them are 50 times more powerful and a few have been many hundreds of times more powerful.

But they are still pretty small compared to the energy released in a large earthquake or volcanic eruption, and the world has survived plenty of those.

2007-09-04 22:36:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

World is more closely knitted today. An atom bomb eight times more powerful will not do any damage to any society. What is more damaging is present danger due to terrorism. This should be fought all along and eliminated from this sphere.

2007-09-12 06:51:48 · answer #3 · answered by lalamlal 2 · 0 0

USSR exploded a Tsar-Bomba in 1960.
It was a 55 megaton device, 2500 times more powerful than Hiroshima bomb.

Nothing happened except some broken windows in Norway and Finland.

2007-09-04 10:35:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7 0

Atomic devices between 3,000 and 5,000 times as powerful as Fat Man or Little Boy have been tested, without destroying the Earth. We have a great ability to kill other people, but the Earth is (so far) beyond our power to destroy.

2007-09-12 00:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by Captain Atom 6 · 0 0

No. We are very limited in the harm we can do the planet.

Now if you really want to worry, be concerned about the super volcano in Yellowstone, when that erupts again it will be the end of North America and likely change most of the world.

Humans can't come close to impacting the world to that degree.

2007-09-04 10:07:58 · answer #6 · answered by Randy 7 · 2 0

I don't know about the results, but I believe you may be referring to the Hydrogen Bomb. I remember it from my youth, but I do not know if it was developed or not. Nevertheless it would take a lot to tear the world apart, but very little to contaminate it, and then you have the celestial bombs to consider, the comets, meteors and man made satellites.

2007-09-10 15:44:21 · answer #7 · answered by reverend_logan 2 · 0 1

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2016-10-09 22:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no the first bombs were equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT people such as the USA and USSR have already tested bombs in the 50 to 100 megaton range.

2007-09-09 08:47:29 · answer #9 · answered by Loren S 7 · 2 0

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