The Largest Bomb Ever Dropped

Terrifying History on Instagram: "In July 2024, a 500-pound World War II-era American bomb detonated unexpectedly during disposal procedures at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan. The explosion created a crater approximately 23 feet wide and over three feet deep, damaging a runway and prompting the cancellation of more than 80 flights. Miyazaki Airport was previously a Japanese military airfield during World War II and has been the site of numerous discoveries of unexploded ordnance over the

🇷🇺 (The most powerful man-made explosion in history) The "Tsar Bomba" — rare footage capturing the moment of its detonation on Novaya Zemlya Island in northern Russia, during a test conducted by the Soviet Union in 1961. The blast was 3,800 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, with a mushroom cloud rising over 60 km into the sky and seismic waves that circled the Earth twice. | Warfare Watch