What if the United States dropped a hydrogen bomb instead of an atomic bomb on Japan?

It can be assumed that we can simulate what it would be like if a hydrogen bomb was dropped. Take Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb exploded, as an example: the little boy nuclear bomb dropped by the United States was a uranium bomb detonated by a gun. The equivalent is10.5 million tons of TNT explosive. It directly caused the loss of Hiroshima 1 10000 people.

Most buildings in Hiroshima were badly damaged after the boy fell. Hiroshima after the explosion has become a ruin from the perspective of aerial photography. If you only look at aerial photos, it seems difficult to understand the power of the atomic bomb. Let's see that Hiroshima is a small city. When "Little Boy" exploded, the fireball radius of the atomic bomb reached 1.80 meters, the overpressure radius reached 1.730 meters, and the whole shock wave range reached 74.7 square kilometers. It basically covers the whole city of Hiroshima.

Of course, the power of the "little boy" is still very small. 10.5 million tons equivalent atomic bomb, in fact, it is only the entry-level model of atomic bomb now.

Since it was a simulated nuclear explosion in Japan, Mr. W did not hesitate to produce a hydrogen bomb with the equivalent of 5 million tons. I searched in the arsenal, and it happened that our Dongfeng -5 intercontinental missile would be 5 million tons if it was equipped with a separate warhead.

The explosion site is still Hiroshima, but it should be noted that the scale in the upper right corner has been put on the scale of 10 km. Still much older than "little boy".

According to direct data, when a 5 million-ton hydrogen bomb explodes, the fireball radius can reach1840m, and the overpressure radius can reach12000m. The shock wave will directly affect the area of 3590 square kilometers. It is difficult to understand the scope of this century with numbers.