Informative Essay On Tsar Bomba

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I am a second year high school student here to explain the lethality of a bomb so powerful it destroys entire cities leaving only a mushroom cloud and extreme levels of radioactivity in the aftermath. The nuclear bomb or “nuke” was invented by Albert Einstein in the manhattan project from 1939-1945. It was used to end WW2 by bombing major cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing about 200,000 people. Seeing how powerful the bomb can be, the world continued to research on how to make the bomb more powerful, thus discovering the tsar bomba, the most powerful nuke up to this day in history. Up to this day they are being improved to be bigger, deadlier, and longer range. Today almost every country has some sort of nuclear weapon, and it is said that, that is enough to destroy planet earth or make it uninhabitable. Nuclear weapons are one of the most dangerous weapons known to man. It all started in the beginning of World War 2 in the manhattan project, where they were attempting to find more lethal ways of dealing with the enemy.
The research was lead by the U.S and the U.K. It cost about 23 billion dollars to for the employes, research, …show more content…

It was a hydrogen bomb capable of blowing everything up to 34 miles away. Its blast yield reached 50 megaton TNT. It has still gone down as the most powerful nuclear weapon in history. In later years the world has continued to build hundreds and thousands of nuclear bombs, weapons, etc. There are now nuclear warheads that can travel around the globe, more atomic bombs, and easily transportable nuclear bombs. There are now enough nuclear weapons that if the world were to go to war with nukes, it would be enough to the destroy planet earth. Nuclear weapons are the most powerful weapon in the world leaving immediate damage and long lasting radiation levels that can cause cancer to any that may have survived the

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