34 weapons explained: yield, history and effects

Each fact sheet gives a weapon’s yield, history and how it works, with its sources. The 3D simulator then lets you see the explosion at real scale.

Nuclear weapons

• Tsar Bomba — 50 Mt · USSR, 1961
• B41 — 25 Mt · United States, 1960
• Castle Bravo — 15 Mt · United States, 1954
• Mk 17 — 15 Mt · United States, 1954
• Ivy Mike — 10.4 Mt · United States, 1952
• Mk 36 — 10 Mt · United States, 1956
• B53 — 9 Mt · United States, 1962
• Test No. 6 — 3.3 Mt · China, 1967
• Canopus — 2.6 Mt · France, 1968
• Grapple X — 1.8 Mt · United Kingdom, 1957
• RDS-37 — 1.6 Mt · USSR, 1955
• B83 — 1.2 Mt · United States, 1983
• RDS-6s — 400 kt · USSR, 1953
• TNA (ASMP-A) — 300 kt · France, 2009
• Gerboise Bleue — 70 kt · France, 1960
• B61-12 — 50 kt · United States, 2021
• Trinity — 25 kt · United States, 1945
• Hurricane — 25 kt · United Kingdom, 1952
• RDS-1 — 22 kt · USSR, 1949
• 596 — 22 kt · China, 1964
• Fat Man — 21 kt · United States, 1945
• Little Boy — 15 kt · United States, 1945
• Davy Crockett — 20 t · United States, 1961

Conventional weapons

• FOAB — 44 t · Russia, 2007
• GBU-43/B MOAB — 11 t · United States, 2003
• BLU-82 — 5.7 t · United States, 1970
• Grand Slam — 5.5 t · United Kingdom, 1945
• FAB-9000 — 4.3 t · USSR, 1954
• FAB-5000NG — 4 t · USSR, 1943
• Tallboy — 3.1 t · United Kingdom, 1944
• GBU-57 MOP — 3 t · United States, 2011
• FAB-3000 — 1.4 t · USSR / Russia, 1954
• Mk 84 — 0.5 t · United States, 1960
• GBU-28 — 0.3 t · United States, 1991

This application is an educational tool. The animations and effect zones are simplified representations meant to illustrate orders of magnitude. They are neither a prediction of the effects of a real weapon nor a military planning tool.