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How big would a single nuclear bomb need to be to destroy all of India at once
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How big would a single nuclear bomb need to be to destroy all of India at once?
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Imagine India stretching across 3.287 million square kilometers
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with bustling cities, vast plains, mountains, rivers, and forests.
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A 15 kiloton bomb, similar to the one dropped on Hiroshima,
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would devastate a single city with a radius of about 1 to 2 kilometers.
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This is a fraction of India's enormous landmass.
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One bomb would barely make a dent.
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Now consider a 500 kiloton thermonuclear bomb, roughly 30 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
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It could destroy everything within a 5 to 7 kilometer radius.
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While this is enough to obliterate a medium-sized city or industrial region,
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even hundreds of these bombs would be required to cover India's entire territory.
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The land is simply too vast for conventional nuclear strikes to flatten it in a single detonation.
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To imagine total destruction with a single bomb, the scale becomes almost incomprehensible.
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A bomb would need a yield in the tens of thousands of megatons,
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theoretically capable of affecting all 3.287 million square kilometers simultaneously.
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For perspective, a single 50 megaton bomb, the largest ever tested in history,
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only created a blast radius of about 35 kilometers.
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Even that is tiny compared to India's size.
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To cover the entire nation in one strike,
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the yield would have to be roughly 60,000 to 70,000 megatons,
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a number almost unimaginable and far beyond any weapon ever designed.
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The energy released by such a bomb would exceed the combined energy output of human civilization for thousands of years.
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The explosion would not just destroy India's cities and infrastructure.
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It would obliterate the land itself,
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vaporize forests, ignite massive fires,
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and send debris into the atmosphere with effects reaching across the globe.
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The resulting fallout, radiation, and climatic disruption
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would affect not just India, but the entire planet.
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This thought experiment shows the unimaginable scale of destruction humanity can theorize,
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but has never actually approached.
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Even in theory, no nation has the capacity to build such a weapon.
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It is beyond current engineering, materials science, and energy limits.
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It serves as a stark reminder of both the power of nuclear weapons
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and the moral responsibility to prevent even smaller scale devastation.
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In imagining such a bomb, one realizes that while science can calculate these extremes,
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reality, ethics, and survival must always define the boundaries of human capability.
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The lesson is clear.
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Destruction of this magnitude exists only in theory,
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and the survival of civilization depends on restraint.
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Cooperation!
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And the avoidance of nuclear catastrophe!
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