If the thermonuclear bomb had not been invented at one time, world states would have fought each other for nothing. Thanks to the creation of this awesome weapon, humanity both protected itself from major military conflicts and gave itself the opportunity of total self-destruction.
Development in this area began immediately after the discovery of the possibility of the existence of controlled nuclear fusion. Then, of course, none of the scientists could even imagine what goals a military machine could use the latest invention for. But the order to create thermonuclear weapons was delivered promptly and clearly. Scientists, of course, did not dare to say too much, so they got down to business.
And things went quickly - the first working nuclear reactor went into operation just before the new, 1943, year. This happened in the United States, and not in Nazi Germany, whose government, by the way, saw its imaginary victory in the war in the halo of such a rare phenomenon at that time as a thermonuclear explosion. However, Hitler's supporters are not at all able to carry out their plans.it turned out - the German scientists did not find the required amount of enriched uranium, which is simply vital for the operation of the reactor. A shortage was discovered a month and a half before the May capitulation, which meant that the engineers would not have had enough time to manufacture fuel under any circumstances. In the end, German scientists, along with their reactor, left for the United States, where they continued their research, but under the supervision of local intelligence services.
Already in early August 1945, a thermonuclear bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki received the same "gift" from the United States. Due to explosions and the influence of radiation, several hundred thousand civilians died and died. Almost all of the survivors were permanently disabled. Soon Tokyo capitulated, and the world community seriously thought about the advisability of using weapons of this kind.
Until the end of the Second World War, the thermonuclear bomb was not used for its intended purpose. However, in the next 20 years, for test purposes, the nuclear powers exploded as much ammunition as would be enough for far more than one war. The apotheosis of this unspoken competition was the explosion on October 30, 1961, of a projectile called the Tsar Bomba. The tests were carried out on Novaya Zemlya, in complete secrecy. The force of the explosion was about 58 megatons, which is equivalent to almost 6,000 bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima. If then they were armed with the Tsar Bomba, then about a country like Japan, one couldforget it altogether.
The thermonuclear bomb is a useful, but at the same time a terrible invention of design thought. As the most powerful weapon, it forces states to live in peace, but at what cost? After all, if peace is achieved by resolving disagreements, this is one thing, but if peace is forced, then this is quite another. The Cold War, of course, ended long ago, but until now, many political scientists and military historians do not exclude the possibility of a new major military conflict, during which the nuclear powers use their main weapon, and the world as it is understood today will come to an end. But these are only theories, of course.
