Father of all bombs

While the bigger countries are talking about eradicating all nuclear weapons, on the other hand they are funding money in developing non-nuclear weapons of mass destruction. The weapon which we are about to know is literally called "Father of all Bombs".

"Father of All Bombs" is the nickname of a Russian-made air-delivered/land activated thermobaric weapon that is claimed to be four times more powerful than the U.S. military's GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB or the "mother of all bombs"), making it the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world. In describing the bomb's destructive power, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff Alexander Rukshin is quoted as saying, "all that is alive merely evaporates.

The vacuum device yields the equivalent of 44 tons of TNT using 7.8 tons of a new type of high explosive developed with the use of nanotechnology. Because of this the bomb is capable of emitting shockwaves as powerful as a small nuclear weapon.The bomb works by exploding in mid-air, while the main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shockwave and an incredibly high temperature which incinerates everything nearby. Thermobaric weapons differ from conventional explosive weapons by using oxygen from the atmosphere, rather than carrying an oxidizing agent in their explosives. They produce more energy than normal weapons but are harder to control.

A comparison of the bombs possessed by the Big 2.

Indicator USA Russia

Mass : 8200 kg 7100 kg
TNT equivalent : 11 tons ~44 tons
Blast radius : 150 m (492 ft) 300 m (984 ft)

So people advocating against Weapons of Mass Destruction are indeed the ones who are in possession of it? Strange Parody.

Mohan Rao.

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them - Zen Proverb