Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Working on a research Paper

So I have been working on a Multi-genre paper. I'm doing the paper on the nuclear bomb testings. Some interesting facts that I have learned, is that even though the Americans were the inventors of the atomic bomb, it was the Russians, during the Cold War, that built the largest nuclear devise. This devise was nicknamed Tsar, and the power of it was equal to 58 million tons of TNT, or the amount of explosive used in WWII times 10.

The blast wave was still big enough to be measured on the 3rd pass around the world. The location of the blast, is Mityushikha Bay test range, test field D-2, Novaya Zemlya Island (located above the arctic circle in the Arctic Sea). Approximate coordinates were 73.85N, 54.50E. The test was conducted by air dropping the bomb from a specially modified Tu-95N

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