What is the strongest weapon on Earth?

The Tsar Bomba
Without a doubt, the Tsar Bomba is the world's most powerful weapon, and one that is thankfully no longer in use. Designed and deployed by the USSR, this nuclear warhead at a yield of 50 megatons, more than bomb since or after.
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What is Earth's most powerful weapon?

Russia's Tsar bomba: World's most powerful nuclear weapon of mass destruction. The Tsar bomba exploded about 4 km above the ground and reportedly produced a mushroom cloud 60 km high.
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What's the most dangerous weapon?

> Lethality index score: 210,000,000,000

Created in the manic arms race of the Cold War, the B-41 hydrogen bomb is the deadliest weapon on this list. The bomb has never been used in warfare but is capable of destruction on a colossal scale.
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Which is the No 1 weapon in the world?

The Tsar Bomba

Without a doubt, the Tsar Bomba is the world's most powerful weapon, and one that is thankfully no longer in use. Designed and deployed by the USSR, this nuclear warhead at a yield of 50 megatons, more than bomb since or after.
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Which is the No 1 gun in the world?

The result today is that some 75 million AK-47s have been produced, with most still in circulation, making it the most ubiquitous weapon in the history of firearms — dwarfing the M16's eight million.
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What is more powerful than a nuke?

But a hydrogen bomb has the potential to be 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, according to several nuclear experts.
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What is America's strongest weapon?

The B83 nuclear bomb is the biggest device in the U.S. stockpile. It has a maximum delivery of 1.2 megatons – that's 1.2 million tons of TNT. This is 80 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War Two. The B83 weighs 1.5 tons and entered service in 1983.
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Why is the AK 47 better than the M16?

The 7.62x39mm cartridge lends the AK-47 more weight and greater penetration when compared to the M16. Differences between AK-47s using forged or milled receivers and stamped receivers lend forged or milled variants better accuracy, while AK-47s using stamped receivers tend to be more resistant to metal fatigue.
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What does AK stand for?

The initials AK represent Avtomat Kalashnikova, Russian for “automatic Kalashnikov,” for its designer, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.
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What is stronger than AK-47?

The M16 had a higher rate of fire, 700-950 rpm compared to the 600 rpm of the AK-47, and most shooters — including those that have used the weapons in combat — have tended to agree that the M16 is the more accurate. A trade-off is that the accuracy and range don't equate to penetration.
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How Far Can AK-47 shoot?

The AK-47 can also mount a (rarely used) cup-type grenade launcher, the Kalashnikov grenade launcher that fires standard RGD-5 Soviet hand-grenades. The maximum effective range is approximately 150 meters.
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Who would win a war USA or Russia?

The USA also has an overwhelming advantage over Russia in terms of conventional forces. Russia still has incredible military might, even if it is not as large as NATO's, with more than a million active troops.
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Can the US ever be invaded?

Geographic feasibility. Many experts have considered the US impossible to invade because of its major industries, reliable and fast supply lines, large geographical size, geographic location, population size, and difficult regional features.
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Who has the best Army in the world?

The United States

With a budget of $738 billion and 1,388,000 men and women in the armed forces, it boasts an awe-inspiring 6,125 nuclear weapons, 11 aircraft carriers, 68 nuclear submarines, 3,761 military aircraft, 867 attack helicopters, 6,209 tanks and 113 warships.
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What if you nuke a volcano?

The explosion of the bomb mixed with the build-up of pressure inside a volcano could amplify the eruption. The force would release even more ash and lava, spreading it even further than it would've gone with the volcano's own power.
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How many hydrogen bombs would it take to destroy the earth?

The declassified study from the scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory, published in 1947 had first shed light on the question that how many nuclear bombs it would take to destroy the world. According to the study, it would take about ten to a hundred 'super nukes' to end humanity, a publication reported.
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Is Hiroshima still radioactive?

Is there still radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.
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What is the hardest country to invade?

#1: United States. The United States is by far the hardest nation to invade. Setting aside their population of over 325 million people, many of whom take the second amendment quite seriously, and the country's varied, often merciless terrain, their biggest advantage is a financial one.
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Did the US ever lose a war?

US lost five major wars after 1945

However, the US was unable to get any significant victory in its wars abroad. America fought five major wars after 1945 including Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan in addition to some minor wars in Somalia, Yemen, and Libya.
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Which nation has the strongest military?

  • Russia. #1 in Strong military. #24 in Best Countries Overall. ...
  • United States. #2 in Strong military. #6 in Best Countries Overall. ...
  • China. #3 in Strong military. ...
  • Israel. #4 in Strong military. ...
  • South Korea. #5 in Strong military. ...
  • Turkey. #6 in Strong military. ...
  • Iraq. #7 in Strong military. ...
  • United Kingdom. #8 in Strong military.
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How strong is the US military?

The U.S. Armed Forces are considered the world's most powerful military. The military budget of the United States was US$693 billion in 2019, the highest in the world. In 2018, that accounted for 36 percent of the world's defense expenditures.
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Who has a bigger army Russia or NATO?

How powerful is NATO? The US has a fighting force that is only marginally larger than Russia's. NATO's chief backer has an army consisting of approximately 1,346,400 personnel. Roughly 165,000 of those are deployed, with 799,500 reserves waiting in the wings.
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What is price of AK-47?

15,000 each': what price peace on the Indo-Burmese frontier?
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How much is a Chinese AK-47 worth?

These had the finest quality parts that were meticulously built into guns and brought into the States — the Holy Grail of Chinese AKs: The most collectable of all the Chinese AKs. $2200-$5000 price range based on 2016 prices.
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