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Illustration. The explosion of the atomic bomb made by Robert Oppenheimer which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was not included in the top 10 biggest explosions in the universe. (Photo: Skeeze)
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Explosion artificial atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, turned out to be nothing compared to at least 10 of the biggest explosions in the history of the universe.
Explosions, whether natural or man-made, have caused awe and terror for centuries. Starting from a tragic ammunition accident, to a cosmic disaster in outer space, it is recorded as the biggest explosion in the history of the universe.
It was also one of the things that inspired a group of scientists at the Manhattan Project under Oppenheimer’s command to create an atomic bomb which was then dropped even though Japan had indicated surrender.
The following is a list of the 10 biggest explosions in the history of the universe LiveScience.
1. The Trinity explosion
Oppenheimer is recorded as having detonated a more powerful atomic bomb than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated as a test measure at the Trinity Site, near Alamogordo, NM on July 16, 1945.
The bomb nicknamed “gadget” exploded with a force of about 20 kilotons of TNT. Oppenheimer while watching the exam thought of a sentence from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita: “I became death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Oppenheimer’s nuclear weapon ended World War II and fueled decades of fear of nuclear annihilation.
2. Chernobyl nuclear disaster
A nuclear reactor exploded in Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986. This disaster was the worst nuclear accident in history.
The explosion detonated the 2,000-ton reactor lid, scattering 400 times more radioactivity than the Hiroshima bomb, contaminating more than 200,000 square km of Europe. About 600,000 people were exposed to high doses of radiation, and more than 350,000 people had to be evacuated from contaminated areas.
Following the accident, authorities established a 2,700-square-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the factory’s radius, which currently remains off-limits to people. Until now, Chernobyl is still considered one of the most radioactive polluted places in the world.
3. The Texas disaster
A fire aboard the cargo ship SS Grandcamp docked in Texas City in 1947 detonated 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate, a compound used in fertilizers and high explosives.
The explosion knocked two planes out of the sky and set off a chain reaction that blew up a nearby refinery as well as a neighboring cargo ship carrying another 1,000 tons of ammonium nitrate.
The disaster killed about 600 people and injured about 3,500, and is generally considered the worst industrial accident in United States history.
4. The Halifax explosion
In 1917, a French cargo ship loaded with explosives for World War I accidentally collided with a Belgian ship in Halifax Harbor, Canada.
The accident caused the ship to explode with more force than any previous man-made explosion, equivalent to 3 kilotons of TNT. The explosion sent a plume of white billowing up to 6,100 meters above the city and triggered a tsunami that was 18 meters high.
Nearly 2 kilometers around the center of the explosion there was complete destruction, and around 2,000 people were killed, and another 9,000 were injured. This became the largest accidental explosion in the world.
5. Tunguska explosion
A mysterious explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in 1908 leveled some 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forests, an area nearly the size of Tokyo.
Scientists think the explosion was caused by a cosmic impact from an asteroid or comet that may have been 20 meters in diameter and 185,000 metric tons in mass, seven times more than the Titanic.
The resulting explosion was roughly as powerful as four megatons of TNT or 250 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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