![]() ![]() Known as Tsar Bomba, it had blast yield of 50 megatons of TNT. However, it was the Soviet Union that managed to create the biggest bomb in the world. We should also remember about the fact that Russia conducted over 700 tests, what makes them the second most important nation when it comes to developing nuclear weapons. When it comes to the number of deployed warheads, the amount is the same as in case of Americans, namely 1600 deployed warheads. Nowadays, similarly to United States, the Russians store a total number of 6490 warheads, what is scarcely more than USA. In the end of 1980s, they were the leading power when it comes to total number of warheads stored. After the first test, the nation in question started to rapidly increase the amount of warheads they possessed. It was still quite a surprise for the Western Powers, who believed that Russia won’t be capable of producing nuclear warheads until 1953-1954. Although the Russians managed to catch up with Americans later on, it was only in 1949 that the first nuclear test conducted by then the Soviet Union occurred. The second most important state when it comes to researching, developing, and then storing nuclear weapon. More about USA military Russia is a country located in North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean with an area of 17,098,242 km 2 (land boundries: 22,407 km and costline 37,653 km). Noteworthy is also the fact that out of this number, United States deployed only 1600. The United States is the world's leading arms exporter. Still, as a result of introduced restrictions on the amount of warheads one state can possess, the current number has dropped to 6500 warheads. From the first test that happened in 1945 to this day, the USA conducted 1054 tests of atomic bombs. ![]() However, it is worth to note that throughout the entire period of the so-called Cold War, USA managed to build approximately 70,000 nuclear warheads, what is more than all other countries with access to nuclear weapons combined. In 1960, the amount of warheads stored by Americans exceeded 30,000. We should also bear in mind that United States are also the only nation that ever used nuclear weapon in military conflict. Since the end of the Second World War, United States became the leading country when it comes to possessing nuclear warheads and it lasted approximately to 1980s. Everything started in 1941, which is date of the beginning of Manhattan project. Americans were the first to wield such powerful weapon. Everything started from the Manhattan project, a research that had one particular goal in focus – to develop and produce the first nuclear weapon. The first country to develop and to military use nuclear warheads in the world. ![]()
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