Russian Military Builds World’s Most Powerful Bomb
This news article definitely caused me to pause for a minute:
Russia tests ‘dad of all bombs’ (CNN)
Apparently, the U.S. used to be in command of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb. It is known as the “mother of all bombs”, a nickname derived from it’s official name “massive ordinance air blast”. (There’s a “your mom” joke waiting to happen.)
However, Russia has now successfully tested a non-nuclear bomb that is four times more powerful, and they’re calling it the “dad of all bombs”. Here are some excerpts from how the article describes the Russian bomb: “blast radius is 990 feet, twice as big as that of the U.S. design… [it] explodes in an intense fireball combined with a devastating blast… a terrifying nuclear bomb-like mushroom cloud and wreaks destruction through a massive shock wave created by the air burst and high temperature.”
Yet Col.-Gen. Alexander Rukshin, a deputy chief of the Russian military’s General Staff, says “Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn’t hurt the environment…”
What?! The 990 foot explosion of fire that creates a mushroom cloud and causes massive shock waves doesn’t hurt the environment? I’d like to see the environment after that bomb hits. I’m imagining that this is some magical bomb that only destroys tanks and buildings, but leaves everyone inside and all the vegetation around them intact. Now that would be a sweet bomb!
I’m sure Rukshin intended to say that it doesn’t cause the radiation and nuclear fallout associated with nuclear bombs, but to say that it doesn’t hurt the environment is just silly. Silly Rukshin.
