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Nature unleashes a torrent of energy as ash fills the air: After lying dormant for more than 9,000 years, the Chaitén volcano belched forth a 40,000-foot-tall ash plume in early May, touching off lightning and a monthlong eruption. The volcano, situated 700 miles south of Santiago, Chile, forced the evacuation of 8,000 people from the nearby village of Chaitén. It was roughly comparable in size to the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption that released hundreds of millions of tons of debris in an explosion 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki.

Scientists suspect that volcanic lightning results from particles in the ash cloud rubbing together as the plume swirls. They aren’t sure about which types of particles generate the most static electricity, nor do they know how much energy is produced during the event. Of course, the lack of research done in the field is understandable: Even scientists, when they see an erupting, lightning-spewing volcano, tend to run in the opposite direction.

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When a pair of B-1 Lancer pilots visited Popular Mechanics offices last week, the talk turned to the rebalance and how it will affect their jobs. The B-1 Lancer is a supersonic bomber that carries twice the payload of a B-52. Its three bomb bays can carry long-range missiles, precision JDAMs (Joint Direction Attack Munitions), sea mines, and “dumb” bombs. The Air Force also equipped the aircraft with modern targeting pods that can watch over a wide area or focus on an individual person on foot. “B-1s have dropped more bombs in America’s last three wars than any other aircraft,” says U.S. Air Force Col. David Been, commander of the 7th bomber wing.

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One way or another, it’s on everyone’s minds, living somewhere in the back of our collective consciousness. Hollywood knows it, and continues to plumb it for box office numbers. Sci-fi is rife with it. The fossil record shouts warnings across millennia about it. Even the dinosaurs developed a particular, albeit brief, loathing for it. The killer asteroid—the one that we might never even see coming—could end life on this planet and there would be nothing humans could do about it. It creates a kind of helplessness that’s difficult to even think about, and it’s Robert Weaver’s job to think about it all the time.

Weaver, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), doesn’t hunt for killer asteroids, but he does study the ways humans might use their vast nuclear arsenals—designed to wipe each other off the face of the planet—to save the whole of humanity from a catastrophic asteroid impact. Weaver has been running simulations on LANL’s Cielo supercomputer to determine humanity’s capacity to mitigate an impending asteroid threat using a one-megaton nuclear energy source—one roughly 50 times more powerful than the blasts inflicted upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of World War II.

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Tsar bomba is a russian nick name given to a hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated. The bomb is sometimes referred to as “Kuz’kina Mat’” potentially referring to nikita khruschev’s promise which he often said “Kuz’kina Mat’”!!! Which is a famous famous Russian idiom. “Kuz’kina Mat’” translates into “We’ll show you!” Nikita khruschev’s was a Russian president during the 1960 UN General Assembly. The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum, in which the bomb was made from. It was decided that such a test blast would create too great a risk of nuclear fallout and a near certainty that the release plane would be unable to reach safety before detonation. This bomb was designed to destroy an entire large city even if dropped five to ten kilometers from its centre.

The bomb was so powerful  Tsar Bomba’s fireball, 5miles in diameter, was prevented from touching the ground by the shock wave. The hydrogen bomb nearly reached 6.5 miles in altitude, of the deploying bomber.

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