What would happen if an atomic bomb were to fall on the Netherlands?
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on his military leadership on Sunday to step up nuclear deterrents. It caused terror all over the world. also under Subwayreaders, who came across a seven-year-old posts through Google. Tens of thousands of people subsequently read the article ‘What if an atomic bomb were to fall on the Netherlands’?
Due to the great interest we bring the article again. Back then, in August 2015, it was written because Japan was commemorating the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Deterrent effect atomic bomb
Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat Man (Nagasaki) were the first and last atomic bombs ever used in war. The deterrent effect of the new weapons was enormous. Now, all these years later, threatening with nuclear violence. Which has everything to do with “making his” war in Ukraine.
In Hiroshima, the blast claimed 140,000 lives. Three days later, Fat Man killed 70,000 people in Nagasaki.
A replica of Little Boy. Photo:EPA
‘What if’ with an atomic bomb?
To clarify the extent of the devastation, American scientist Alex Wellerstein Nukemap it shows what the impact of such an explosion would be on any other place on Earth.
What if these bombs had been dropped over the Netherlands?
If Little Boy had exploded above the Paleis op de Dam, nothing of the entire canal belt would have been created. Within the first red ring, the shock wave would have been so great that all the buildings had been knocked down. The green circle indicates the area near all the people is happening because of the radioactive radiation.
Within the white circle would be all residential houses. The outer yellow ring shows how far the heat of the blow would travel. As a result of the bomb on Dam Square, even visitors to the Van Gogh Museum would still suffer third-degree burns. In total, more than 80,000 are killed and 160,000 injured.
Fat Man in the Binnenhof would have wiped out very political The Hague and a large part of all ministries. Estimated number: 65,000 killed and 1,000 injured.
After 1945 do not stand still. The arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union developed more powerful weapons. New techniques such as the hydrogen bomb allow even greater explosions.
hydrogen bomb
The first hydrogen bomb ever tested, the American Ivy Mike in 1952, large parts of the Randstad could be wiped out in one fell swoop. With a strong wind the radiation could have been measured deep into Scandinavia.
But the biggest ever to explode was the Russians who were the biggest ever. On October 30, 1961, the ‘Tsar Bomba‘ at a height of 3 kilometers above Nova Zembla. The consequences of the blow were absurd. The specific mushroom cloud went 40 miles into the sky. After the impact, the seismic shock went around the Earth three times. The heat from the explosion had caused third-degree burns up to 100 kilometers away.
Remotely above the Randstad this would have meant that The Hague and Rotterdam had been destroyed. Residents of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort and Breda sustain burns. An estimated 1.5 Dutch people lost their lives and another 2.2 million were injured.
Such huge ones, which were tested for Cold War use, were never really put to military use, let alone used in war.
Yet the current strength of nuclear weapons is much greater than in 1945. The largest American bomb that can still be used today, the B83, has a strength almost 100 times stronger than the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.
B83
Since the end of the Cold War, the Russians and Americans have phased out their arsenal of atomic bombs. But critics say this is moving too slowly. The two countries together do not have a sloppy 10,000 nuclear weapons lying around. Also China, France, Great Britain, India, Pakistan and North Korea and Israel have nuclear bombs in their arsenal.
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