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This article contains a list of nuclear weapon explosion sites used across the world. It includes nuclear test sites, nuclear combat sites, launch sites for rockets forming part of a nuclear test, and peaceful nuclear test (PNE) sites.
Numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system and fires over four hours destroyed 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of streets. [1] Gante Street was the most damaged. By the accounting of Lloyd's of London, the reported number of people killed was about 252, although many estimate that the catastrophe actually caused at least 1,000 deaths. [2]
Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...
1 Karlino oil eruption: 13 February 1981 United States: Louisville, Kentucky: 0 4 Louisville sewer explosions: 27 May 1983 United States: Benton, Tennessee: 11 1 Benton fireworks disaster: 23 May 1984 United Kingdom: Lancashire: 16 28 Abbeystead disaster: 7 September 1984 Malta: off Qala: 7 1 C23 tragedy: 19 November 1984 Mexico: Mexico City ...
A B83 casing. The B83 is a variable-yield thermonuclear gravity bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s that entered service in 1983. With a maximum yield of 1.2 megatonnes of TNT (5.0 PJ), it has been the most powerful nuclear weapon in the United States nuclear arsenal since October 25, 2011 after retirement of the B53. [1]
High altitude carpet-bombing with much smaller 500-to-2,000-pound (230 to 910 kg) bombs delivered via heavy bombers such as the B-52, B-2, or the B-1 is also highly effective at covering large areas. [10] The MOAB is designed to be used against a specific target, and cannot by itself replicate the effects of a typical heavy bomber mission.
The reply: one 4.5 megaton bomb and three more 1.1 megaton weapons in case the big bomb was a dud (the Hiroshima bomb was 12.5 kilotons). [ 3 ] : 268-269 The execution of SIOP-62 was estimated to result in 285 million dead and 40 million casualties in the Soviet Union and China. [ 28 ]
At about 3:45 pm local time, an explosion occurred in the basement of a parking garage adjacent to the main office building. [1] The blast caused the first two stories of the fourteen-floor Building B-2 to partially collapse. [1] The cause of the blast was a gas leak that was ignited by an electrical fault. [5]