Bomb Blast 😱😱

Rumble/War-:On 6 July 1962 the United States conducted the ‘Sedan’ nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. The device had an explosive power of 104 kilotons, the equivalent of around eight Hiroshima bombs. The blast displaced more than 12 million tons of soil and created a crater 100 metres deep and 390 metres in diameter – the largest man-made crater in the United States.


Nuclear testing reached an all-time high in 1962 (click to enlarge).

The test was a so-called “peaceful nuclear explosion” (PNE), carried out to determine the feasibility of using nuclear detonations to excavate large amounts of earth both quickly and economically. A PNE is qualitatively no different from a weapons test in terms of fallout and has the technical characteristics of an explosive device, see nuclear testing chapter. Over 150 of all 2,050 nuclear explosions were classified as PNEs. When the total number of nuclear explosions (both weapon tests and PNEs) conducted worldwide in 1962 reached 178, it marked an all-time high, fuelling political tensions on the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis.